TY - JOUR
T1 - Marŋgithirri guŋga’yunarawu ga guŋga’yunyarawu marŋgithinyarawu Learning to connect and connecting to learn:
T2 - Preparing the rural and remote allied health workforce through a co-created student-implemented service in East Arnhem, Australia
AU - Bird, Katrina
AU - Stothers, Kylie
AU - Armstrong, Emily
AU - Marika, Eunice Djerrkŋu
AU - Yunipingu, Murphy Dhayirra
AU - Brown, Louise
AU - Witt, Susan
AU - Campbell, Narelle
AU - Barker, Ruth
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Objectives: To explore the process of learning for allied health students providing a student-implemented service for older Yolŋu in remote East Arnhem, Northern Territory, Australia. Design: An exploratory qualitative study following an 8-week student-implemented service. Setting: Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala and surrounding remote Aboriginal communities of the East Arnhem Region of the Northern Territory. Participants: Data were collected from: 4 students who implemented the service; 4 professional supervisors, 3 placement coordinators, a Yolŋu cultural consultant and a care manager from a local community organisation, all of whom supported implementation of the service; and 7 older Yolŋu and their families who were recipients of the service. Interventions: A student-implemented service for older Yolŋu delivered by allied health students from James Cook University. Clinical, cultural and pastoral supervision and support was provided by Flinders University, James Cook University, Indigenous Allied Health Australia and 2 Yolŋu cultural consultants and 2 local community organisations. Main outcome measures: Semi-structured interviews with those who implemented, supported and received the service. Data were analysed thematically using an inductive approach. Results: ‘Learning to connect and connecting to learn’ described how allied health students were learning to provide a service for older Yolŋu. Four interrelated processes connected their learning: ‘preparing and supporting’, ‘bonding and responding’, ‘growing and enriching’ and ‘working and weaving’. Conclusion: The co-created student-implemented service provided a unique learning opportunity for allied health students on how to provide a culturally safe service in a remote Aboriginal community in northern Australia.
AB - Objectives: To explore the process of learning for allied health students providing a student-implemented service for older Yolŋu in remote East Arnhem, Northern Territory, Australia. Design: An exploratory qualitative study following an 8-week student-implemented service. Setting: Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala and surrounding remote Aboriginal communities of the East Arnhem Region of the Northern Territory. Participants: Data were collected from: 4 students who implemented the service; 4 professional supervisors, 3 placement coordinators, a Yolŋu cultural consultant and a care manager from a local community organisation, all of whom supported implementation of the service; and 7 older Yolŋu and their families who were recipients of the service. Interventions: A student-implemented service for older Yolŋu delivered by allied health students from James Cook University. Clinical, cultural and pastoral supervision and support was provided by Flinders University, James Cook University, Indigenous Allied Health Australia and 2 Yolŋu cultural consultants and 2 local community organisations. Main outcome measures: Semi-structured interviews with those who implemented, supported and received the service. Data were analysed thematically using an inductive approach. Results: ‘Learning to connect and connecting to learn’ described how allied health students were learning to provide a service for older Yolŋu. Four interrelated processes connected their learning: ‘preparing and supporting’, ‘bonding and responding’, ‘growing and enriching’ and ‘working and weaving’. Conclusion: The co-created student-implemented service provided a unique learning opportunity for allied health students on how to provide a culturally safe service in a remote Aboriginal community in northern Australia.
KW - Aboriginal
KW - co-design
KW - older people
KW - remote services
KW - service learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121510066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12813
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12813
M3 - Article
SN - 1440-1584
VL - 30
SP - 75
EP - 86
JO - Australian Journal of Rural Health
JF - Australian Journal of Rural Health
IS - 1
ER -